How Small Town Properties Can Make Real Estate Investors Rich | Ep 121 w/ Katie Neason
The BetterLife Podcast: Wealth | Real Estate Investing | Life
Brandon Turner & Cam Cathcart
4.8 • 767 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2025
⏱️ 77 minutes
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In this episode, Cam and I sit down with Katie to uncover how she built her real estate portfolio by betting on small-town revitalization. We dive deep into her investment strategy, the challenges of redevelopment, and how she spots hidden opportunities in overlooked markets.
Here’s what we cover:
• How Katie started with house hacking and flipping before shifting to redevelopment
• Why she avoids traditional multifamily and instead focuses on small-town downtowns
• The hidden challenges of redevelopment
• How to find undervalued properties in overlooked markets
• The 4 signs that a city is ready for real estate redevelopment
• Why Katie is extremely selective with her investors—and how she raises capital
• How to make money in real estate without relying on traditional rentals
• And so much more!
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| 0:00.0 | What you don't want to do is fall in love with that building on Main Street that you have the perfect passion for, because then you're going to get stuck and you're going to believe it can't happen. |
| 0:10.2 | And all these old people think I'm their retirement plan and they won't sell me the buildings and nobody wants, you know, like just go and put all the fishnets out there and just see what you can reel in. |
| 0:19.8 | That is such good advice for every real estate investor in any deal. |
| 0:22.7 | This is the Better Life podcast where we talk about real estate investing, building wealth, |
| 0:26.7 | and all in all living a better life. |
| 0:28.6 | My name is Brandon Turner, and I've spent my life investing in real estate to achieve financial |
| 0:32.8 | freedom. |
| 0:33.8 | And alongside my co-host, Mr. Cam Cathcart, we want to help you do the same. |
| 0:38.0 | On the show, you're going to hear from world-class guests who have been handpicked to help |
| 0:41.1 | you level up, your investing, your leadership, your goals, your habits, and more to become the |
| 0:45.2 | very best version of yourself. So join us as we explore the habits, the actions, the beliefs |
| 0:50.4 | that it takes to build wealth through real estate investing without losing your soul. |
| 0:57.9 | This is the Better Life podcast with Brandon Turner and Cam haircut, Calf Cart. |
| 1:03.2 | Cut the mullet off, maybe. |
| 1:04.2 | Cut the mullet and the mustache. |
| 1:05.8 | Now you just look like you're 12. |
| 1:07.1 | And I look normal, and that's what I hate about it is I'm the most normal looking. I'm |
| 1:12.2 | just a- Yeah, you're just a normal guy now. Yeah. Lexi finally got you to cut it and look normal. |
| 1:16.2 | Yeah. Well, the hair looks good, even you got a hat on today. It does look good. See, look at |
| 1:20.2 | this. You look like a preacher or something, like a cool preacher. A cool creature. You have sneakers on? I do. I have Yeezys. Oh, look at those. Do you get these in the camera? I don't. |
| 1:29.4 | Thank you. Those are easies, baby. They're fake. I got them. China? No, I got them in Africa for, I think, $12. Wow. |
| 1:40.8 | And so they're very fake, but it's okay. From far away, people don't know. |
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